linux equivalent for MS sharepoint?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Peter Arremann wrote:

> On Monday 10 January 2005 09:03, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   what would folks recommend as a substitute for microsoft sharepoint?
> > from the poking around i've done, it seems that one group recommends
> > something as simple as a wiki, while another camp says "zope".  any
> > other options?
> >
> > rday
>
> The answer depends on which part of the Sharepoint hairball you want to
> replace... Sharepoint is the App equivalent of Active Directory - a bunch of
> unrelated technologies bastardized and thrown together in one app...
>
> If you look for a portal, use zope, postnuke or any of the other thousand
> portals out there... if you look for colaboration on text documents you have
> to go with a wiki implementation. If you're just looking for a place to share
> docs the way you have it in sharepoint the answer is unfortunately doesn't
> exist...
>
> What exactly are you trying to do?

i wish i could be more specific -- the short story is that
the-powers-that-be just shouted down from the mountaintop, "we are
going to use sharepoint!"  i'm still trying to figure out:

 1) for what?
 2) how can i stop them? :-)

rday